User Guide

Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 8
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 8
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.1 Using the management console ................................................................................................................11
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................18
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................18
1.3.2 Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................19
1.3.3 Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................20
1.3.4 Management Console ................................................................................................................................22
1.3.5 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................22
1.3.6 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................23
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................23
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................23
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................25
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................26
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 27
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................27
2.2 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................31
2.3 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................32
2.4 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................33
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................35
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................38
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................41
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................43
2.9 Backing up LVM volumes and MD devices (Linux) ..................................................................45
2.9.1 Backing up logical volumes ........................................................................................................................45
2.9.2 Backing up MD devices ..............................................................................................................................46
2.9.3 Saving the volume structure information ..................................................................................................47
2.9.4 Selecting logical volumes and MD devices in command line ....................................................................47
2.10 Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................48
2.11 Tape support ............................................................................................................................49
2.11.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................49
2.11.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................49
2.12 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................50
2.13 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................51
2.13.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................51
2.13.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................52
2.13.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................53
2.13.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................55
2.14 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................56
2.14.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................57
2.14.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................58
2.14.3 Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................61